From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 10 11:15:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05560 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05554 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id GAA13270; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:04:19 +1100 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA24569; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:15:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:13:52 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: genght@cn.ibm.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE box more slow than slackware3.5 box? In-Reply-To: <48256714.00124BCC.00@cn.ibm.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 genght@cn.ibm.com wrote: > I have two boxes that have the same hardware.One is FreeBSD2.2.8-RELEASE > and the other is Slackware3.5. > They are using the same Intel 10/100 NIC and attaching to the same 10/100 > Bay 450T switch.But when I ftp/telnet to my FreeBSD box(either from win95 > client or from linux client),it responded after a very very long time (I > think it is dead,but not.)But the linux box work perfectly. {...} make sure that the machine you're telnet/ftp'ing from is reverse-resolvable, either by DNS or /etc/hosts. By default, FreeBSD does a reverse lookup on the incoming IP address to use a name for logging (at least that's my experience with 2.2.[567]). -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message